MY BEST SHOT

Only as foreign as Fort Bragg

It may look like North Africa, but it's Northern California. In March, Kurt Brotcke and his family took a guided hike with Lodging and Llamas along Ten Mile Beach, just north of Fort Bragg. That's where he took this picture of his 4-year-old daughter, Clara, with a digital Canon EOS Rebel. She and the llama were set in high relief against the sky, said Brotcke, a transportation planner for Orange County who lives in Santa Ana. "And the colors were just perfect."